Mark 
Darrell 
Mike [00:00:00]
Darrell: That eats acai. It’s just
Mark: And
Darrell: freaking [00:01:00] nuts.
Mark: we’re gonna have an ad hoc episode.
Darrell: It’s just nuts
Mark: gonna spar and talk about jujitsu while I’m a
Darrell: Just,
Mark: high.
Darrell: oh, ~~I’m, ~~I’m, I’m starting to feel it
Mark: I have a question for you.
Darrell: Hmm.
Mark: Does it mean we’re old now that we describe that we use cannabis for pain management? Just like I told you, I smoked an entire joint, not for euphoria, not for pleasure. I smoked it to stop the pain in my body,
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: aches
Darrell: so we’re at the point, we’ve graduated. So before when we were smoking weed in high school and college, it was for pleasure, it was for, um, recreational use. It
Mark: Yes, it was
Darrell: it was for a fun time. At our age, we’ve graduated to utility. Cannabis is now a utility ‘cause we need it to get by.
Mark: right?
Darrell: Yeah, we need it to get by.
Like I
Mark: I wasn’t smoking flower for the longest time, and edibles are fine, but I’m just
Darrell: It’s different. Edibles are different. [00:02:00] Yeah.
Mark: it totally is. But when I went back to my old ways and I woke up the morning after, I felt like a Mercedes Benz. ~~Like, ~~my joints felt like they were smooth.
~~Like, ~~my bones didn’t feel heavy. My neck didn’t get stiff. Like,
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: had a good sleep I felt like I was— I felt like I was regular, like ready to go ~~kind of ~~thing. No pain.
Darrell: Yeah, that
Mark: I feel ~~like, ~~d-dare I say, I feel young for that moment in time. I’m like, there’s no creaks ~~in my, ~~in my, uh, knees, none of that.
Darrell: No noise.
Mark: no noise.
Darrell: Yeah. Yeah, that’s, that is the best feeling.
Mark: that’s utility, I guess you could
Darrell: I can’t believe we used to take that for granted.
Mark: I know.
Darrell: Like just being able to jump out of bed just literally ~~from, ~~from laying flat to on your feet in like seconds.
Mark: Without getting lightheaded.
Darrell: Without getting- Without getting lightheaded, without
Mark: I get lightheaded. I get lightheaded now, and I’m just like, [00:03:00] that never happened when I used to get up, sit up, get up from the toilet or anything like
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: just like, “Whoa.”
Darrell: Yeah. E-exact…
Mark: a s-
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: a snack from the couch, right?
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: off the couch and I’m just like, “Whoa, what the fuck is going on
Darrell: and it’s because ~~I, I, I, I mean, ~~I think it could be attributed to your height. You’re a little taller than me, so the elevation, the air is a little thinner up there and you just went, you went zero to 60 ~~just, ~~just
Mark: think, I don’t think the older we get, our bodies can handle going zero to 60
Darrell: Oh my God, I can’t
Mark: ~~Like, ~~it needs to go like zero to 45,
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: to 30 tops
Darrell: gradually, yeah, tap, tap, ~~uh, you know, ~~pump the brake a little bit, you know?
~~Right, ~~exactly
Mark: like I know for sure tonight after a nice one-hour session at jujitsu, having a good meal, know, I’m pretty much cleaned up and showered up and toasty, and then I smoke a joint, I’m gonna sleep good tonight. I think I’m gonna
Darrell: that’s probably the part I also look forward to after, like, just like w- winding down. Yeah. I don’t know, right? I, I, [00:04:00] it, especially after I train, like a good training session. ~~Like, you know, ~~it was like a, it was a good workout, like you learn something. It was just like all around good. ~~Like, ~~and then you get home and you’re just like, okay, it’s ~~like, ~~get ~~like, ~~get some good food, then it’s, ~~you know, ~~let’s sh- wash up and ~~it’s, ~~it’s wind down.
And ~~like, ~~I have to like… I’ve ha- it’s happened too, where ~~I, ~~I wind down and I’m on the couch and I sleep on the couch. That’s a ter- that’s a terrible morning. ~~Mm. ~~Everything’s broken at that point. I just, we’re, I’m not meant to sleep in a sitting position anymore. I used to be able to do it when we were younger.
Now your body lets you know, like
Mark: Oh, wow. So you fall asleep like that quickly on the couch where you’re still in a
Darrell: because
Mark: position?
Darrell: because I’m like,
Mark: th-
Darrell: y- ~~you know, ~~you go to that re- relax mode, right? And it’s just ~~like, ~~okay, like everything’s like shutting off, and watching TV doesn’t help. I’m just like watching TV and then
Mark: I
Darrell: half the time…
Mark: differ. I tuck myself into that bed. I’m just like, “Nope.”
Darrell: I’ve st- yeah, I’ve, I’ve had to, I’ve had to remind [00:05:00] myself, “Hey, get up off your ass and go upstairs
Mark: Yeah
Darrell: you’re gonna h- hate yourself in the morning.”
~~Like, ~~and so like I’ve done that. I have to catch myself like, “Don’t doze off. Let’s go upstairs.” But yeah, we’re d- totally opposite because I will just take it on the couch and ~~if, ~~if I not, if I’m not careful
Mark: Once I’m on the couch, I don’t even, I don’t even sit anymore. I’m a— It’s
Darrell: and your couch is comfy too, man
Mark: Automatic lie down. I’m just like, “Let me stretch, lie down, throw me a pillow. Daddy will be back in 30 to 45 minutes.”
Darrell: Yeah. It’s a, it’s funny how you take power naps in the evening. It’s like
Mark: Oh, dude, I could
Darrell: it’s just so that you can make it to bed, you know?
Mark: Dude, it, I think it is. It’s just so I could last longer, prolong my day by having energy throughout the day.
Darrell: That’s…
Mark: I,
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: I want that, so ~~I, ~~I take naps
Darrell: Yeah, dude, naps. I think naps… No, I think we need more of it. [00:06:00] There’s not enough napping going around
Mark: I think so. I’m— That’s why I’m like, think everyone just needs to take a… It’s
Darrell: everybody has… Yeah. ~~Well, I mean, ~~I’m sure like, ~~you know, ~~you’ve heard about like a sleep, what a sleep deficit is, right? It’s
Mark: Oh yeah,
Darrell: yeah, right? So it’s like your lifetime that you’re negative of sleep, and it’s like that’s the total of it.
Mark: back.
Darrell: Yeah, so there, that’s it, and that’s what ~~I, ~~I exactly think. And there’s people that say, “Oh no, you can do little things to get like minutes back.”
I’m like, “What the f-” ~~I guess, like ~~if I have ~~like ~~30 minutes each session, I’m like, “Oh, I got an hour back.”
Mark: you’re not gonna get any of
Darrell: Yeah, you’re not gonna get it back, right? But you, it’s more of like you gotta ~~kind of ~~course correct now. ~~Like ~~that’s pretty much it. There’s no ~~like, ~~“Oh, let me take extra naps to get my sleep deficit down.”
Mark: So how much, uh, how much weed are you doing this moment in this modern-day era of your
Darrell: I’m probably smoking at least three times a week
Mark: Yeah, that’s sensible.
Darrell: Yeah. ~~I mean, ~~yeah, like once in the weekend and then twice [00:07:00] during the weekday.
Mark: Yeah, I haven’t puffed at all in ~~like ~~six months, to be perfectly
Darrell: Man, so that must be hitting you real nice right now.
Mark: the edibles have been my o- my thing every now and again
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: but
Darrell: Edibles are weird for me though. ~~Like, ~~edibles is the, like, I’ll leave… ~~Like, ~~fucks with my stomach. So it’s,
Mark: it? Oh
Darrell: yeah.
Mark: shit. No,
Darrell: Yeah, so that’s why I don’t do it as much. I have edibles, like, but… And also, and I’m at the point where, like, I don’t have time to wait half an hour f- to see where this shit goes. Like,
Mark: That’s what I’m saying too. I was
Darrell: right?
Mark: I forgot how attractive flower was.
Darrell: I
Mark: it’s there. It’s off, it’s
Darrell: We demand satisfaction.
Mark: Yeah, and
Darrell: yeah, I’m
Mark: I’m totally getting it, like
Darrell: I’m not waiting for it, right? We’re not waiting for it. We’re… I need
Mark: No
Darrell: to get high now, ~~like, uh, not, ~~not in 30 minutes when, ~~you know, ~~like we don’t, we, we don’t have that luxury
Mark: Do you think How much, as, as we get older,
Darrell: Uh-huh.
Mark: like what is your sweet spot for how [00:08:00] much weed you smoke in that one single session?
Darrell: ~~you know, ~~I’m good, ~~like, for, ~~for in a session, I’m good with one joint. ~~I can, ~~I can take care of a, like a, and, and like a standard joint. So what is it? Like a inch and a quarter, right? Or something like that? Or…
Mark: or something like that.
Darrell: Some- something like that. Like ~~the, the, ~~the standard size, um, raw cones, right? Yeah, ~~I can, ~~I can do one of those a session, and that’s like probably by ~~like ~~a third of the way through, I’m already feeling it.
Mark: Oh, yeah. Oh,
Darrell: right. It’s like ~~I’m already, ~~I’m already getting there and it’s like the rest is just gonna like just propel me.
Mark: I want to add a little bit of, uh, of some elderly advice here now. what I’ve been doing in the past few days is obviously I’ve been puffing again, ~~you know, ~~so I’m smoking it again. like an old man, I go out on a walk while I puff. So the whole neighborhood is just getting smoke from me right now.
Darrell: Oh, that’s not bad
Mark: it’s not bad because ~~it, ~~it evens out and stuff like that. But also too, I’m walking, [00:09:00] I’m getting cardio while I do
Darrell: Yeah. It’s gotta be what— Do you stay within your co- like compound or do you go out to the street?
Mark: Oh yeah, I go out. Like I go out as
Darrell: you go out of ~~your, ~~your,
Mark: Yeah, I go out for as long as this takes ~~to, ~~to burn through
Darrell: You just gotta be careful with that because ~~that, ~~that’s like drinking with a open container. Like, you don’t want a cop, you don’t want a cop to see you ‘cause you’re by a main road.
That’s all I’m saying. It’s like right there.
Mark: I’m not like going so far.
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: going back and forth
Darrell: I’m thinking like you walk to ~~like, ~~to the pool and then wrap it around to where the gym is and then come back kind of thing.
Mark: Oh,
Darrell: Or you go f- you go further than that?
Mark: No, I don’t go further than that. I
Darrell: okay. You stay like closer to the house.
Mark: yeah. Yeah
Darrell: Oh, okay. I thought you were like fucking going on like adventure Bilbo Baggins style.
Just we’re gonna go…
Mark: no. It’s dark at night. The freaking coyotes are out. Hell no. I don’t wanna get stabbed. Hell no.
Darrell: and coyotes and
Mark: dude, I ha- I went for a walk in the [00:10:00] morning last week or whatever it was,
Darrell: Uh-huh
Mark: and a coyote got ~~really, ~~really… They’re not shy city,
Darrell: No.
Mark: city coyotes, know ~~how to, ~~to not be phased by a human. I was walking per- I was walking in my peripheral, saw him perpendicular camouflaged to like the background, like the trees. Like he was the perfect color that it was like, if you’re
Darrell: You couldn’t see him. Yeah
Mark: he matched the tree bark, he matched the foliage,
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: “Whoa.” But he
Darrell: Yeah, it’s
Mark: and then ~~I, ~~I slowed down, and then I was like, “Okay, here we go.” And then I backpedaled slowly, very slowly. Eye contact maintained at all times kind of mentality. And at first it looked like it was working ‘cause he was just observing,
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: curious and started walking up a little more. And I was like, “Oh, shoot. Every time I backpedal a little more, he gets more curious. Every time I back up more, he gets more curious.” So I start getting bigger, and I start screaming and clapping and shit like that, stomping my foot, [00:11:00] so it starts to scare him more and more. But then he’s just ~~like, ~~on. Hold on. Let me just check a little bit more.” And I freaking darted out of there, and I was like…
Darrell: Ah.
Mark: enough space so I could outrun him, ‘cause it was uphill too, and I was at the top of the hill, he was at the bottom.
Darrell: Wait.
Mark: But yeah,
Darrell: You thought you could outrun him?
Mark: ~~Well, ~~from where ~~I was, ~~I was like… I honestly— No, I didn’t. I thought I was gonna
Darrell: you’re high as fuck. You think you’re gonna outrun…
You’re gonna run and… You’re gonna run two feet and, like, fall over.
Mark: I wanted to scream bloody murder. Yeah, I was like
Darrell: ~~You know, I, I, ~~I… It’ll be funnier if that was all in your head, and,
Mark: No, there was a coyote
Darrell: and your neighbor is watching you. He’s ~~like, ~~“What’s this guy doing with the fire hydrant?” Like,
your neighbor’s like, “Hold up. It’s that damn guy again.” Why is, why is he, why is he afraid of a fire hydrant? It wasn’t a coyote, it was a fucking fire hydrant.
Mark: He keeps running away from the fire hydrant. [00:12:00] But no, like I told…
Darrell: is he making himself bigger?
Mark: ” Babe, I think it’s that guy again.” I’m like, “He’s running away from the fire hydrant. He’s running away He won’t stop.” Dude, it was crazy though, ‘cause, um,
Darrell: No, I believe you though. There’s coyotes everywhere there.
Mark: fuck, man.
Darrell: Yeah. They’re probably under the house, you know what
Mark: man, they don’t, they don’t,
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: shy away because they’ve mapped out where the humans are. Like,
Darrell: And
Mark: you know, so they know where everything is
Darrell: And they probably, you know, I’m sure they probably dumpster dive, dude. Like,
Mark: Oh, yeah.
Darrell: right? It’s just right there
Mark: doubt it. I don’t
Darrell: I’m sure you have raccoons and that’s a, that’s food. Yeah, you know, so
Mark: Yeah, that was crazy. That was definitely like that, that fucker was looking at me, like straight up. He’s like, “You wanna look me in the eye? I’ll look you in the eye.” I like that. I like eye contact. But dude, fucking wild, wild shit. At
Darrell: Babe, he’s doing that weird shit with the fire [00:13:00] hydrant again.
I don’t know what the fuck he’s doing. He’s, ~~like, ~~waving his arms and shit.
Mark: He
Darrell: t-
Mark: he
Darrell: he’s walking away. He’s talking to it. He’s talking to it, and he’s walking away.
Mark: Man, that would be fun. Now you’re making me think like ~~what, ~~what… It could’ve been something else. What if it was a tree stump? That’s all
Darrell: What if it’s,
Mark: a
Darrell: a cutout of, like, a dog? ~~Or something. ~~I don’t know. Oh, that’d be hilarious. Oh my gosh. ~~I, ~~I… You guys have, like, cameras ~~in, ~~in the compound, like…
Mark: Or a st- what if it was just a statue?
Darrell: Even worse, it’s like a rock shaped as a dog kind of thing.
Mark: You know what I do every time I pass by it? I just go, “Hey,
Darrell: “Hi. Hi. Hi.”
”
Darrell: “I’m bigger. I’m bigger.”
Mark: Dude, I had to stomp the ground.
Darrell: Oh my God, you’re stomping the
Mark: doosh,
Darrell: babe, baby, now he’s stomping his feet. ” Hey, sh- should we call the cops?” ” The meth heads are out here again.”
Mark: He’s ta- he’s tapping his feet. I [00:14:00] don’t know why he’s tapping his feet.
Darrell: He’s a bear. He’s saying he’s a bear.
Mark: Oh, shit. Oh, man.
Darrell: Oh my gosh. Yeah, that’d be hilarious. ~~I, I, ~~I want it to happen so badly. I want it to happen so badly. That’s some super bad shit, dude. That’s some super bad shit.
Mark: The thing is, today I went out on a walk because I was like, “Okay, I’m— I learned my lesson,” kind of mentality. So I
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: a walk in the morning, but I was like, “I remember what happened last time.” So I brought pepper spray with me.
Darrell: Huh.
Mark: I
Darrell: Not, he’s not around today. Not around today. Guy’s re- guy’s eating cereal. He’s like, “He’s back.”
Mark: He sprayed the fire hydrant with gly— with
Darrell: he has something in his hand. I don’t know what that is. Looks like a flashlight. Oh, it’s Mace. It’s Mace. He’s Macing the fire hydrant. Yeah. He, you know, he’s g- he’s, he’s getting close to it so he can get a, he can get a better shot.
Mark: Baby’s running away [00:15:00] again.
Darrell: He’s out, he’s out. He ran out, he ran out. Oh, he’s checking. He’s f- he’s looking at it. Oh, he sprayed himself. He sprayed himself. He was trying to check if he had Mace left, and he sprayed himself
Mark: Oh, man.
Darrell: Uh
Mark: They eat cats though.
Darrell: Oh, dude. Uh, that’s probably why you don’t have feral cats anymore.
Mark: Yeah,
Darrell: Yeah, and small dogs. Yeah, we’ve- Small dogs.
Mark: dogs, right?
Darrell: Yeah, we’ve had… Well, uh, like a few years ago, there was an incident where some lady was walking her little dog and in, in the afternoon, and a coyote snatched it in broad daylight
Mark: No way
Darrell: f-right in front of her. Yeah. It was— And sh- like she re- I don’t know why, but like, you know those like neighborhood Facebook groups, right?
Like you join and it’s just a bunch of bullshit. They’re like, “Anyone, anyone who buy, wanna buy a, a shirt or something?” Or,
Mark: Yeah
Darrell: right. And so someone posted it. They’re like, “Hey, my dog just got snatched by a coyote at like 2:00 in the afternoon. Like everyone be safe.”
You know? And [00:16:00] I would be like, “Uh, let’s handle that coyote.
Let’s call the cops. Let’s call the… Is there a ranger that we can call to, to like handle that situation?”
Mark: The park ranger would be like, “What am I
Darrell: Yeah, I just, I,
Mark: do?”
Darrell: I just, I, I only have Mace like you and this stick.
Mark: I
Darrell: have Mace and a stick
Mark: right?
Darrell: and a whistle. Like, they’re not sending me with much. They’re just…
Mark: dude. They, they are, um, what’s it called? Cost-cutting. They’re
Darrell: Yeah, they’re cost-cutting.
Mark: That’s
Darrell: yeah. Ah.
Mark: your hours, we cut your weaponry, we cut everything to save
Darrell: Talk about like the bare, the bare essentials. Like
Mark: I, I don’t know. That sucks though that that happened to that lady. That must’ve
Darrell: Yeah, it’s, it was, it was nuts. Uh, uh, a- after that, it was like, there was like a period of like, where people were like super paranoid, and then anytime they saw a coyote, they’d just report it. [00:17:00] And so they were like on like, you know, they’re kind of paranoid or in a panic, right? B- because from one ex- one, one person’s experience.
I think, you know, that maybe she could’ve dressed it up better instead of like making like a… Like she made it sound like, like, it’s like a, it’s like a fucking plague or something, like another COVID, you know?
Mark: Okay
Darrell: yeah, she kinda over-exaggerated. I mean, yeah, sad that your dog got snatched. It was very traumatic.
But the way she like— I think she could, like she just told people just like, “Coyotes are everywhere. They’re gonna eat you. Like, don’t be outside.” You know, some shit like that.
Mark: Goddamn, that’s, that’s trauma.
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: is
Darrell: Yeah. I mean, I’d rather have coyotes and, I mean, you got coyotes and possibly mountain lions
Mark: Yeah. one, that one’s interesting.
Darrell: But I think you’re too far from mountain lions. Or you’re in the area, but you’re, you’re not like…
Mark: Yeah.
Darrell: Yeah,
Mark: would probably be more common
Darrell: fuck. We got bobcats too?
Mark: Fucking bobcats are gnarly. They’re like, that is a cat [00:18:00] on like the tea.
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: those types of cats are definitely on the tea. Like
Darrell: Now speaking of tea, you got any dads in jujitsu that are on tea?
Mark: Mm-hmm.
Darrell: You, you do? You got
Mark: what? Probably, but no one’s admitted to it. Probably
Darrell: you don’t, they don’t need to admit. You can, like,
Mark: Não
Darrell: see the Santa Claus looking man with, like, fucking 50-inch chest. Like,
Mark: Hmm
Darrell: like a super buff old guy. Like that’s usually it. It-
Mark: would say there’s
Darrell: would say-
Mark: in our,
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: c- in our school
Darrell: I think I, I, I think I have a co- I mean, I definitely have a couple. I definitely have a couple, but
Mark: in his 50s. Yeah. And I’m like, He, he brags about his blood work too. Like he’s got like the da-da,
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: a, of a 25-year-old or
Darrell: I know. I, I wish I appreciated that more.
Mark: Yeah.
Darrell: I know, I wish I appreciated something like that more, but I just, I don’t care.
Mark: Yeah, but then he would be the one that I would say in my school is like doing that,
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: he’s abnormally strong for an older dude.
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: saying old guys can’t [00:19:00] be strong, but I’m just like, there’s a, there’s a nuance to his strength versus other people
Darrell: Definitely.
Mark: roll with. So
Darrell: No, definitely. It’s, it’s kinda weird that way. Like, I don’t know, like
Mark: Actually, maybe another guy. He’s like, he’s relatively our age.
Darrell: Mm-hmm
Mark: Well, yeah, maybe he’s a little bit older, just a tiny
Darrell: I think four, the f- in your 40s is kind of a good time. That’s like kinda like the, the starting point as
Mark: the
Darrell: y- of the decline and also like you start like exploring those op- those different, you know, methods
Mark: I can see
Darrell: to maintaining your youth, right? So, so for…
Mark: method I’ll take
Darrell: I mean, there’s, there’s a couple, man. You got testosterone, you got steroids, you
Mark: Yeah
Darrell: got over-the-counter, you got chocolate milk.
Ah, hey
Mark: Oh, shit, he’s there. What’s up?
Darrell: Where’d you go? Did you go to the Laker game? Is that why you’re just coming home now?
Mike: No, no, no. At a [00:20:00] practice,
Darrell: Surprised he hasn’t asked you to— he hasn’t invited you to playoffs. Playoffs
Mike: No. I’m…
Mark: You went into it.
Mike: Are
Mark: Oh yeah, we’re in a live session. And I
Darrell: just ad hoc. Just ad hoc. Yeah, just for…
Mark: end of it.” So
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: went… What were we
Darrell: hold on. Let’s, let, let’s just ask Mike. Mike, do you, do you know any dads,
Mark: Oh, there you go.
Darrell: at your kids’ school or at basketball,
Mark: Yeah
Darrell: that are on testosterone therapy?
No. Like,
Mike: Yeah
Darrell: could you identify one? Like, if you saw it? Like, he’s on testosterone. Have you seen, have you ever, you have, you never seen one?
Mike: no, I
Darrell: of like, like, like an old guy, like a little older than us, but J- Jack like a teenager, like fucking yoked. Uh, or is like he’s more agile than normal for his age
Mike: Yeah. I mean, I
Darrell: They’re, and they’re also like,
Mike: are
Darrell: they’re like also like gym… They’re like super healthy. Like that, that’s kinda [00:21:00] like the thing is like most of these guys, most of these guys get like te- testosterone therapy for, for like the extra edge, right? In the gym. So no, no one like that that you run into?
Mike: No. M- I mean,
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: You know why, Daryl? He hasn’t felt another man press on his body
Darrell: This other thing that’s unfortunately
Mark: doesn’t have, uh, he doesn’t have a, a point to compare
Darrell: like, it’s like,
Mike: have
Darrell: it’s like trying to de- it’s like trying to describe a tree to a blind man. I get it.
Mark: It’s like no one’s… Welcome back everyone to the “Puff Provisions” podcast.
Darrell: Oh
Mark: it feels like to have a man wield his power at you When you’re not volunteering to be on the bottom of him, he will never understand what man
Darrell: I don’t, I,
Mark: or abnormal man
Darrell: I’m convinced Mike wouldn’t allow himself in that situation
Mark: No, I think he would get the gun.
Darrell: He, no, he’d probably be like, “Yeah, no, never. You can’t even catch me walking by the place.”
Mark: All right.[00:22:00]
Mike: No, that’s a
Mark: So talk about something else then. Things that should, things that should cost a dollar no longer do. In this era of time where everything in terms of price is overly inflated, and we all can agree to that, a time when the dollar meant something to us, whether it be in your childhood or even in your young adulthood, where you could still feel the value of a dollar. you to explore that range. a little bit high up there with me after I smoke my gram here and tell me, in a modern-day sense, what do you remember you could get almost all the time for a single dollar?
Darrell: It’s so long.
Mark: Mike,
Darrell: old
Mark: the totality of your life, what did you realize like a dollar can get me this? Let’s go. you can’t, you don’t need, you don’t need to blink. Like you knew it was gonna get you this or that
Mike: I think it’s still a [00:23:00] dollar. Ari- Arizona iced tea,
Mark: iced tea. They laser
Darrell: They raise the price. Yeah.
Mike: I think they
Darrell: Yeah, that’s a good… Yeah, exactly
Mark: to be a dollar. You’re right. It used to be
Darrell: 99 cents. It was 99 cents. Yeah.
Mark: Okay
Darrell: you got all of that. You got all of that.
Mike: gosh
Mark: D?
Darrell: Yeah.
Mike: even a,
Darrell: it- that’s actually what I was thinking. Like, like you could walk to like, you know, any restaurant and order just, you know, maybe a soda with some- something, right?
It’s always a dollar,
Mark: Yeah
Darrell: right? I think I’ve even less sometimes, like, you know, like 80 cents or something for like a tall soda
Mark: I would say soda, an Arizona iced tea. You could always get a bag of chips.
Darrell: Yes
Mark: always get a bag of chips for a dollar. It was always somewhere near there.
Darrell: Mm-hmm.
Mark: Um, gas used to be like a dollar, $1.19. It was a dollar. I still remember a long time ago, uh, in our childhood, that thing was like 99 cents or a dollar.
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: You know, even though I don’t know what gas prices were back then,
Darrell: We didn’t understand, we didn’t understand it.
Mark: no, but [00:24:00] now I do.
Darrell: Yeah. Yeah. We,
Mark: a gallon of
Darrell: we didn’t understand it back then. I know. It’s, it’s unfortunate
Mark: gas. That’s crazy. Um, now in a modern day sense, now that we can’t— we’re transported back to the year 2026, what do you think is downright egregious upsetting that it’s no longer a dollar? Daryl, you go first
Darrell: Oh, you know what? That was a good one. Uh, for the longest time, the, uh, the tacos at Jack in the Box
Mark: The two for a dollar?
Darrell: They’re not a dollar anymore. They’re $2. Actually $2 and some change.
Mark: No, they’re not
Darrell: You could get two tacos at Jack in the Box for a dollar. Yeah,
Mark: I
Darrell: you remember that?
Mark: me it’s—
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: me
Darrell: and those,
Mike: yeah
Darrell: n- they’re a dollar a piece now, so it’s like, yeah, $2 plus…
Mark: That’s
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: a dollar.
Darrell: Yeah. And so
Mark: and saturated tortilla
Darrell: And remember how that sim- that simple meal was like everything?
Mark: [00:25:00] And
Mike: my
Mark: it tasted so good.
Mike: Yes,
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: tacos
Darrell: that, don’t have that anymore. Thank you, inflation
Mark: Okay, so obviously gas prices is one of them too, but
Darrell: Gas prices? Yeah.
Mark: pretty ridiculous.
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: let’s go back to that dollar. I don’t think you could even get a candy bar for a dollar or less anymore
Darrell: A, a good one even.
Mark: Mm-mm.
Darrell: less a…
Mike: Now it’s at least
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: I think
Darrell: Yeah.
Mike: right?
Mark: that now.
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: a dollar 50
Darrell: Like
Mark: a candy bar. That’s stupid
Darrell: Dude, yeah, I know. Like a Snickers bar was like, used to be like, like 90 cents or something like
Mark: A,
Darrell: that.
Mark: yeah, a dollar or less. I remember it was a dollar or
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: Like even like it was 75 cents ‘cause I remember being a fat kid
Darrell: Oh, that’s what I want. The, um,
Mark: always budget, uh,
Darrell: y- you know how they would have like, you know how they would have like king size versions of the candy bar, like a king size Snickers?
Mark: yeah.
Darrell: And it was only, it’s, it was only like…
Mark: [00:26:00] like a $1.50
Darrell: was a little more, right?
Mark: Yeah.
Darrell: I can understand paying for like, for pretty much two chocolate bars, right?
But they don’t… Now it’s like, we’re close to like four bucks
Mark: Yeah. I remember back in the day too, like whenever you said, “I wanna get a king size,” you knew it was like, “Oof, I’m paying a lot today.” You dro- you’re dropping a buck 50 on that one.
Darrell: we’re coming spoiled
Mark: that. Yeah. But another one, I noticed McDonald’s doesn’t have a dollar menu anymore,
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: and that shocked the shit out of me. Like that value menu they have, I’m like, “Okay, that’s a good compromise,” but it’s like a dollar 39, a dollar 50 still over… And I’m
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: “When are you gonna get it lower to a dollar?” It’s like, so I can quantify these things a little, a little easier.
Mike: Yeah
Darrell: You know what’s funny is McDonald’s like for me, like doesn’t hit the spot anymore.
Mark: Oh,
Darrell: Uh, it’s like,
Mark: no. No
Darrell: feel
Mike: You’re cra- you guys are crazy.
Darrell: I feel like I’ve outgrown McDonald’s. Like I don’t find their like food appealing [00:27:00] anymore. Like I used to love their fries. I used to love the f-
Mark: fries,
Darrell: yeah, fries with like a, a double quarter pounder.
Like
Mark: just, for me it’s the size. Like, I need more. ‘Cause I remember being a kid and, like, you order a Big Mac or just
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: they still look big when you’re a kid.
Darrell: Have you seen the Jack in the Box, uh, Jack in the Box Munchie Meal?
Mark: Mm-mm. Sounds
Darrell: how much food you get?
Mark: Oh shit, really?
Darrell: You get a ton of food. You get… So you get,
Mark: for the stoners
Darrell: Oh, it’s definitely, it definitely is. So you, you get two sides,
Mark: Yeah
Darrell: which, uh, yeah, two sides, ‘cause you get the fries. You get your choice of fries, either straight, curly, or both.
Mark: Hmm
Darrell: get two tacos. You get… Then you get your, like a sandwich, plus a large drink. What’d I miss? I think it’s, like, eight bucks.
Mark: Oh, that’s a good price
Darrell: I think, I wanna say eight. I might be [00:28:00] wrong, but it’s, I mean, it’s a lot of food for, like, you know, for what it is. And, and it’s like, the sandwich isn’t, like, tiny. It’s, like, a full-size sandwich.
Mark: What is it? A hamburger
Darrell: you have… There’s four. It’s like, one’s like the McCluckin or something like that. It’s
Mark: Okay
Darrell: like a chicken sandwich, it had some shit on it, and like, there’s, like, a Jumbo Jack.
Mark: Do you think that should be worth $8 or $5?
Darrell: Probably f-, I don’t know, maybe $8. It’s a lot of food.
Mark: Is
Darrell: Yeah, it’s a lot of food. I, I would feel like I
Mark: then
Darrell: I would feel like I’m stealing at that point if it was $5.
Mark: Okay. What else is a dollar and is no longer a dollar?
Darrell: Uh, why did I have so long?
Mark: ’ Cause even when you go to a place like the Dollar Tree store, it’s not even a dollar anymore,
Darrell: Yeah, th- those are lies.
Mark: Yeah, the everything’s a lie now, so what is a dollar? You know? What… It’s not
Darrell: Yeah, you can’t really f- you can’t really find anything for a dollar. Like, not, not nowadays you can’t
Mark: It’s [00:29:00] freaking
Darrell: Yeah.
Mike: meaningful
Darrell: Dirt
Mark: Was ice cream a dollar back in the day?
Darrell: Oh,
Mark: Yeah?
Darrell: McDonald’s. Remember you’d get like a cone for like a dollar
Mark: Oh, that’s right
Mike: I think you could, you used to be able to get like a big stick from the ice cream man for like a
Mark: Dang
Darrell: Yeah, that’s right That’s when quarters meant something
Mark: See, and that’s why weed prices, they don’t really change except, you know, account for taxes now and shit like that.
Darrell: Yeah
Mark: for the most part, a gram is still a gram. It’s 20 bucks. At
Darrell: Actually, not anymore. I mean,
Mark: I know
Darrell: it’s like 30 now
Mark: Well, I went even after 4/20 happened. I went like a few days after to go check out the dispensary, and I’m like, everything is still marked down.
They’re all just trying to sell their
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: Everything
Darrell: I’ve seen like a new, uh, like something on the news that people are like smoking weed less because [00:30:00] it’s just…
Mark: much
Darrell: Well, that it’s like it’s kinda lost its like thunder, you know? Like
Mark: Oh yeah, ‘cause it’s
Darrell: that’s why there’s
Mark: thing now
Darrell: like you don’t see like dispensaries popping up left and right anymore. You don’t, you know, you ki- they kinda actually gotten less.
Like some have closed,
um, so there’s only like a select few in certain areas now. Um, people just start sm- like smoking less. Like I notice like when I go to my dispensary, like all like everything’s like stocked. Before like you’d walk in like maybe like a year, like a year or two be- you know, back, you go in and it’s like, “Ah, shit, I just like missed out on the last bag of edibles or that I like,” or like all they have is like a hybrid, something hybrid flower because everything else is go- is gone, right?
Now it’s just like, “Yeah, we have, we have a lot of everything.” And it’s gotten like a little like cheaper because they have to move the product or else it’s gonna go bad.
Mike: I wonder if, um, you know, with the current state of economy, people [00:31:00] have maybe not necessarily stopped smoking, but have
Darrell: Oh, yeah, right? Because weed is, weed legally is expensive. Yeah.
Mark: Yeah.
Darrell: They
Mark: is expensive. That’s true.
Darrell: Can you imagine? The dealer’s like, “They always come back.” Right? Okay, come crawling back. What, your bougie weed wasn’t cutting it?
Mark: Your Apple weed wasn’t good,
Darrell: you want,
Mark: you gotta
Darrell: yeah. You
Mark: I
Darrell: want
Mark: don’t know. I think, um, in this economy, in this state of how every price has gone up kind of mentality, I think it’s gonna be one of those things where the new dollar menu
Darrell: Mm-hmm.
Mark: literally the $2 menu
Darrell: Yeah. They don’t even call it that anymore. They’re just like, it’s the McValue Meal or McValue Menu.
Mark: meal,
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: always gonna be two bucks
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: You gotta get used to it.
Darrell: I—
Mark: “Hmm, okay.”
Darrell: We’re far from it
Mark: Nope, we’re gonna fight this one
Mike: I literally just saw, um, [00:32:00] something on IG. Um, there’s like 12 states where six-figure income
Darrell: Low income. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve, I’ve seen that.
Mike: Yeah, it’s
Mark: That’s
Darrell: here, man. That’s California. Yeah, definitely. Probably like at least top two. Yeah, it’d probably be, it’d probably be New York. I’m gonna guess New York and like California Maybe
Mike: Yeah. 100K qualifies as lower middle class in
Mark: Dang
Mike: states. Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Darrell: Hawaii
Mike: California, New
Mark: Hawaii is definitely going to be
Darrell: Yeah
Mike: uh, Washington, Colorado, Utah, Connecticut, Alaska, and
Mark: Really? Yeah
Darrell: Yeah,
Mike: That’s Virginia,
Darrell: actually, it was, yeah. But that’s nuts, man.
Mark: there. That’s crazy though
Darrell: yeah. You know, I, um, what’s funny, um, last time we went to Hawaii, uh, I checked out, um, jobs at this, at City of Hawaii, or City of Honolulu. City of Honolulu, City of Hawaii. [00:33:00] And, um, uh, and, and they had a IT, like, uh, analyst job, and I think the, the start, the starting salary was like, it was like 160 or something like that.
It was high.
Mark: salary
Darrell: like, it looked like, I don’t know if it was like on the low end of the, you know, of the ladder,
I guess, right? But I was, uh, but then you like look at like houses, like the cost of living in Hawaii. If you’re gonna work there and then you live there too, I, I think that’s worse than California.
Like it’s just, like everything’s so expensive.
Mark: Mm-hmm.
Darrell: Every, like, like everything’s tour…
Mark: over
Darrell: Well, no, everything’s tourist prices. Everything’s tourist prices. You know, you go, can’t go to a restaurant without getting like, ‘cause it’s tourist price. Like they mark everything up. Unless you know the guy and you get hook up Or, or you got, you gotta hook up at Foodland
Mark: Oh man, that sounds bomb right now. But none of the… nothing there costs a dollar.
Darrell: No
Mark: Okay, so we
Darrell: Ah, okay
Mark: bars, ice cream bars, [00:34:00] bag of chips, a soda. Those things don’t cost that anymore. Anything else?
Darrell: Yeah
Mike: No.
Mark: Like I, I think that’s a pretty good, and sad list all at the same time.
Darrell: Si-simple s-simple pleasures
Mark: Yeah. It’s like those are the things, and that’s just— Well, that fucking sucks. So on that note, “Puff Revisions” podcast, welcome back. Thank you for the talk. It’s always good to have a welfare check with everybody. Let’s see where we go with this. Maybe th- one day men will press their hard testosterone bodies on Mike. Maybe. Then he can feel the comparison.
Darrell: One day
Mike: One
Mark: But until then, gentlemen, that was a great talk, and I’m glad I— Everyone needs to know that, Mike, you, you weren’t here to hear this, but I think I’ve reached the point of my cannabis use where it’s not for euphoric effects or recreation, but it’s for [00:35:00] pain management. So it is now, as Darrell has described, it is not even recreation anymore. In our 40s, it’s not even medicinal. It’s become utility. So that’s what I’m taking from this conversation tonight, is that I am finding utility in the way I feel right now because I was in a lot of body pain,
Mike: Hmm.
Mark: Everything was just hurting.
Darrell: we’re old
Mark: everything’s fine. getting smooth again, at least for the next 12 hours
Darrell: I’m gonna s- sleep like a baby
Mark: I want to sleep like a baby. Puff, puff, peace
Darrell: Hey
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